Education

As has been the case with every industry that the magic hand of Information Technology (IT) has touched, education too, is undergoing a tumultuous revolution. It is one of the fastest growing industries in recent times thanks to IT. The first & foremost aspect of this revolution is the ‘access’. The Internet has made so much information available at the simple click of a button. The old brick and mortar situation where at any given point of time the ‘guru’ knows more than the ‘sishya’ is a thing of the past….

The convergence of mind and matter, the coming together of digital and material sciences lies at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution. From search algorithms to self driving cars, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that enables machines to work and think like humans. Generally viewed as the simulation of human intelligence by machines, the AI comprises of learning, reasoning, problem solving, planning and self correction. Machines are increasingly going beyond the physical repetitive work and include planning, strategising and decision making…

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is an orchestration of computers and physical systems. CPS combines various models including engineering and environmental, civil, electrical, biomedical, chemical with methods of computer science. However, these models and methods do not combine easily so, CPS consequently constitutes a new engineering branch, which demands its own models and methods. The “cyber-physical systems” word emerged during 2006 and was coined by Helen Gill at the National Science Foundation in the United States. Another related term “cyberspace” is attributed to William Gibson, who used the term in the…

India Science Wire Male infertility in India is very high. It is generally due to low production and motility of sperm, abnormal shape of sperm or complete absence of it. Now a group of Indian scientists have found underlying genetic factors for infertility among Indian men. They hope this knowledge could help them develop a genetic test for male infertility in near future.It is known that Y chromosome has several genes that play a role in production of sperms. Any deletion of genes on Y chromosome causes diseases of testes…

We have all witnessed some kind of patterns that nature makes up in the manifestation whole magical world of ours. Like the fishes forging a rampant attack using their delusional art of creating an image that makes their predator to gallop into the deep water and saving themselves. There are always patterns emerging in front of us, in a way that human’s have a delusional feeling of something not so certain that eludes the nature itself. Swarm robotics is also somewhat we can call as an approach to the coordination…

Kevin Woller after receiving his Science Doctoral degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) marched forward in his research work in great speed. During his study time he was supported by a long list of scientists, teachers and mentors in his work and studies. In the similar way also supported a lot of young scientists and researchers who were junior to him. Woller says that to encourage him to come to the research work of fusion science was done by Physics professor Daniel Marble at Tarleton. During those days Professor…

The year 2019, the 150th year of the invention of the periodic table by Dmitri Mendeleev has been proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. Year-long celebrations are planned across the world to celebrate the invention of the periodic table. CSIR-NISCAIR joined the celebrations by organizing a science film screening-cum-interactive session on the periodic table on 25 January 2019.  Dr. D.K. Aswal, Director, National Physical Laboratory who was the Chief Guest of the function explained the science behind the…

India Science Wire If India wants to catch up with China and other countries in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence it will have to make huge investments in developing all enabling technologies and necessary eco-system, and also develop a framework for ethics and standards in AI.  This was stated by experts participating in a two-day international colloquium on ‘Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Al Systems for a Better World,’ which was inaugurated by commerce minister Suresh Prabhu and Prof K Vijaya Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the government on…

Robots have been shaping our world and changing the way we explore the space. Now there are robots for all the significant work at International Space Station. They have plenty of sensors that helps astronauts. These are highly functioning machines with inherited intelligence are now on the way to switch places with human astronauts. Robonaut Robonaut is a joint project by DARPA–NASA designed to create a humanoid robot, which can function and perform task equivalent to humans during the 1970s and exploration. The large goal of the Robonaut project is…

India Science Wire The excessive amounts of human waste and toxic effluents that find their way into the Ganga River are not only polluting the water but also causing deficit of dissolved oxygen in the riverbeds in some of the most polluted stretches of the river, a new study has found. Dissolved oxygen is an important parameter that determines health and rejuvenation capacity of any riverine ecosystem. The amount of dissolved oxygen in a river depends on atmospheric supply of oxygen, photosynthetic process, and oxygen-consuming metabolic and chemical processes. If…